Author: Truman Capote
- Fiction
- Anagrama, Editorial S.A.
- ISBN: 9788433977250
- Release Date: 11-30-2013
Synopsis
This collection includes one never seen before story, the magisterial “The Bargain”, written in 1950, and five stories that up until now had never been translated into Spanish: “The Walls are Cold”, a subtle chronicle of the cloudy evening meeting between sailors and mercenaries; “A Mink of One’s Own”, a story of appearances and disappointment, for which Capote possessed a fine sense, “The Shape of Things”, about a train journey where a story of war is revealed with contained poignancy; “Preacher’s Legend”, in which hidden tenderness and penetration serve as the counterpoint to the merciless realism and raw language used to describe the obsessions and fears of a poor and lonely old man; and finally, the moving, grotesque and shrewd “Paradise’s Waiting Room”, which refers to the meeting, in an unexpected place, between a happy widower and a mysterious woman, gifted, among other things, with an admirable voice. Stories as famous as “A Tree of Night”, “Mojave” and “A Christmas Memory” complete this collection in which Capote’s succinct style shines in all its brilliance.
En esta recopilación brilla con todo su fulgor el estilo sucinto de Capote, dueño de todos los registros –en particular, su maestría para el diálogo y su suprema habilidad para transmitir, de una pincelada, una sensación, un sentimiento, una idea– y señor de múltiples ambientes narrativos, que configuran un fresco de humanidad y le aseguran un puesto de honor entre los mejores escritores de su tiempo.
